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...from known facts. Everybody knew that Japan was beginning to act on its neutrality pact with Russia by intensifying its war against China, by preparing a force-supported diplomatic drive against U.S., British and Dutch interests throughout the Far East (see col. j). This week the drive began. The Osaka Maimchi accused the U.S., Britain, China, British India, Australia and The Netherlands East Indies of pooling their military and naval resources to maintain the status quo in the Far East. Australia's Minister for External Affairs Sir Frederick Stewart, the first to deny this, called it "a piece...
Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932-a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist...
...Chefoo, China, with 18 other Chinese, to sail the Kwang Yuan. The crew discovered that the "Chinese" company which had bought the craft had placed aboard three Japanese officers, learned in San Francisco the Kwang Yuan was to carry 2,100 tons of scrap iron to an Osaka (Japanese) munitions factory...
...Because of the coal shortage and a great drought all through 1939, electric power was so acutely inadequate that in some places (notably industrial Osaka) a 30% cut in consumption was ordered. Osaka was under virtual blackout. Most light industries were entirely shut down, and even war industries were last week being rationed...
PARIS--Premier Edouard Daladier, in an exclusive interview with the Osaka Mainichi tonight, revealed that French military preparations envisage a "massive German attack with all forces," this spring, that France and Japan are preparing to open negotiations for French recognition of Manchukuo and that the French government views Russian Bolshevism and German Nazlism as essentially the same thing, comparable to cholera or the plague...